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Belgium: Taxpayer-funded theater company seeking real Islamic State jihadis to act in a play

Mar 14, 2018 9:41 am By Robert Spencer

What could possibly go wrong? This production could be explosive!

“‘Culturos’ NTGent are looking for real IS fighters as actors,” translated from “‘Culturo’s’ NTGent zoeken echte IS-strijders als acteurs,” by Jonas Naeyaert, Sceptr, March 14, 2018 (thanks to L.):

NTGent, a city theater in Ghent, is working on a new production. The performance will be about the famous Lamb of God painting. But for this performance, they are looking for real IS jihadists, as it turns out today. The painting of the Van Eyck brothers depicts Knights of Christ and “in our modern, super-diverse society, the concept of crusader must, of course, be pulled open,” according to Het Laatste Nieuws.

People who killed their brother or sister, apple and snake lovers, exhibitionists, blacks and real IS fighters. For all these people, NTGent placed an advertisement in the newspaper. On the famous painting of the Van Eyck brothers – the Lamb of God – Adam and Eve are depicted next to the Lamb himself, Cain and Abel, the Just Judges and the Knights of Christ. And that is why NTGent is looking for all kinds of modern “metaphors.” Since there are no more knights of the cross, NTGent wants to opt for IS fighters. “Are you fighting for your beliefs? For God? Are you moist for IS, for other religions? (sic),” is their advertisement.

“I do not want to say that we are actively looking for IS fighters”

“I do not want to say that we are actively recruiting IS fighters,” says Tom De Clercq, press officer of NTGent, in Het Laatste Nieuws. However, the advertisement leaves little room for nuance. And from mail traffic that HLN obtained, it also explicitly shows what people are looking for: “Salafists and jihadists.”

On the original painting, the Knights of Christ are at the bottom left. Between the Lamb himself and the Just Judges (the missing panel). And “in our modern, super-diverse society, the concept of crusader must of course be pulled open”, it says….

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  1. Berengaria says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 9:57 am

    NTGent is, of course, a Government sponsored project & you can bet that the Casting Call for Jihadist “Warriors” is also Govt. Sponsored. The Citizens of the Netherlands are going to have to act quickly, because this is the beginning of your own Govt., “HUMANIZING THE TERROR OF ISLAM”.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 10:02 am

      Geography Lesson! GHENT IS IN BELGIUM, not in the Netherlands!

  2. Diane Harvey says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 10:18 am

    They’re gonna put me on the live stage
    They’re gonna make a big star out of me
    They’ll make a play about a murdering Muzzie that’s sad and homely
    And all I gotta do is act naturally

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 2:12 pm

      🙂

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOpgL4mqEis

      But maybe they’ve really “Got a Tiger by the Tail”?

  3. Peter says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 10:26 am

    Sorry,…..This isn’t in the Netherlands but in Belgium (OK,..Belgium was a part of the Netherlands until abt 1830) For the rest is the information accurate!!

  4. Pete says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 10:31 am

    REAL is good
    How about real bonbs?
    An real beheadings
    And of course real rapes

    Why have actors when you can have REAL

  5. No Muzzies Here says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 10:59 am

    One can only hope that the inevitable resultant acts of violence will limit their immediate scope to the individuals who so eagerly sought out the actual perpetrators of violence.

  6. mortimer says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 11:43 am

    These naïve fools are asking for trouble if they think that they can work with PSYCHOPATH KILLERS the way you work with people in a calm office.

    They will soon have more than they can cope with. There will be thefts, rapes, and death threats from the JIHADISTS.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 11:45 am

      The NTGent company should just hire ACTORS, rather than risking dealing with DANGEROUS KILLERS who will EXTORT MONEY FROM THEM.

  7. afrostreetwise says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 11:45 am

    i hope this is a sick joke. Even the Jihadists will suspect a plot to expose themselves to the authorities. Sorry they may have to do with fake jihadists but not for lack of them in Belgium. I hope someone doesn’t get offended by the presence of Christs night and decide to go real. After all, there will be Kuffar audience and that is a dream come true for a martyr.

    • afrostreetwise says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 11:46 am

      night= Knights

  8. Tjhawk says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 2:08 pm

    That is an impressive signaling of the awesomely virtuous progressive values of this theater company. ??LOOK AT US!! WE ARE MORE INCLUSIVE THAN ANYBODY!!??

    And of course they want to take the willingness to to die for a cause, and make it the same, no matter what the cause is. IT’S SO OBVIOUS: A knight willing to fight and die to resist islam is EXACTLY the same as an islamic state jihadi who is willing to fight and die for his cause. They would NEVER have an exploration about how these causes differ. Any resistance makes one the equivalent of an is jihadi.

  9. Arthur says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 8:48 pm

    Somehow, I think when the director tells the jihadis to stand over to the left because you are playing the role of the “crusaders,” there won’t be the respect for the director’s authority that they anticipate.

  10. FYI says

    Mar 15, 2018 at 12:41 pm

    …..they might need some more actors..

    muhammed….to play allah..pretending to be God
    muhammed….to play the “prophet” muhammed…pretending to be a prophet
    muhammed….to play the muslim prophets Moses and Elijah…pretending the Jews are muslims.
    jibreel…to play the angel Gabriel…pretending to be an angel

  11. gravenimage says

    Mar 15, 2018 at 5:07 pm

    Belgium: Taxpayer-funded theater company seeking real Islamic State jihadis to act in a play
    ……………………………..

    Firstly, it is sick to substitute Jihadists for the Knights of Christ, as though fighting for *any* religion is just the same.

    More immedidately concerning, of course, is the danger this vicious idiocy presents to the cast and audience of this play.

    So often today, “artists”–I use the term loosely–are obsessed with being “transgressive”–that is, with discomfiting whatever is left of the Bourgeois. Now, most of the time, this just leads to stupid and offensive “art”, but no one is hurt.

    But *this* supidity could be very differen.t.

    By the way, I wrote two papers on the sublime “Lamb of God” altarpiece by the Van Eyck brothers when I was at university–probably the greatest artistic treasure of Ghent.

    How the overall tone of art has fallen in the intervening centuries–certainly in the 20th and 21st centuries..

  12. Eric jones says

    Mar 15, 2018 at 11:44 pm

    What a show! They could jump down in the audience and behead people to everyone delight!

    Eric

  13. Peter WF says

    Mar 16, 2018 at 3:18 am

    This has to be a police rouse to arrest these bastards.

  14. kouldb says

    Mar 18, 2018 at 1:04 am

    Yet more dangerous & delusional ideas from an already delusional industry.

  15. Jay says

    Mar 20, 2018 at 11:41 am

    If this is not a “honey trap” for ISIS enemy, it certainly should be !!

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